| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 450 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-436) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
Mining the religious and secular divide, this book examines the history of apocalyptic beliefs. It explains the various omens and prophecies as well as the actual events that may trigger the end, such as collisions with asteroids, nuclear war, the oil crisis, global warming, and famine. It also discusses the long history on the end of history. |
| Contents |
Abomination of desolation -- Abraham and monotheism -- Abrahamic covenant -- Adam and Eve -- Aliens -- Alpha/Omega -- America in prophecy -- Amillennialism -- Ancient of Days -- Angels -- Anointed one -- Antichrist -- Apocalypse -- Apocalyptic writing -- Apostasy -- Apostles' Creed -- Ark of the Covenant -- Armageddon -- Armageddon, Battle of -- Armstrong, Herbert W. -- Asteroids -- Astrology -- Atomic age -- Babylon -- Babylon Rising -- Bakker, Jim -- Barbour, Julian -- Beasts, The -- Beginning of the end -- Bible Code -- Bible timelines -- Big Bang -- Big Crunch, Big Chill, and Big Rip -- Book of life -- Books of the Bible and their relation to prophecy -- Branch Davidians -- Buddhist views of the end -- Calvinism -- Campus crusade for Christ -- Carter, Jimmy -- Cayce, Edgar -- Chafer, Lewis Sperry -- Christ : prophet, priest, and king -- Christian reconstructionism -- Christian resurrection -- Christian views of the end -- Church fathers -- Church, Role of -- Clairvoyance -- Comets -- Concerned Christians -- Conservative Christianity -- Copernican revolution -- Cosmos, Fate of -- Covenant -- Creation renewed -- Cross, The -- Culture -- Cush. |
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Daniel -- David -- Day of Judgment -- Day of the Lord -- Days of Noah -- Devil -- Dinosaurs, Extinction of -- Dispensationalism -- Doomsday argument -- Doomsday cults -- Dragon -- Dreamtime -- Druidic view of history -- Dualism -- Earth shift -- Earthquakes in various places -- Ecological exploitation -- Egypt -- Einstein, Albert -- Endtimes -- Eschatology, Comparative -- Eschaton -- Eternal life -- Eternity -- Ethiopia -- European common market and European Union -- Evangelicalism -- Exegesis -- Ezekiel -- Failed prophecy -- Fall, The -- False prophet -- Famine -- Final judgment -- Futurist School of Biblical Interpretation -- Ghost dance -- Global warming -- God -- Gog and Magog -- Graham, Billy -- Great tribulation -- Hawking, Stephen -- Heaven's Gate -- Hermeneutics -- Hindu views of the end -- Hollywood envisions the end -- Ice -- Indigenous peoples of the Americas, end of the world beliefs -- Isaiah -- Israel -- Jehovah's Witnesses -- Kabbalah -- Kennedy, John F. -- Kingdom -- Kings from the East -- Left behind books -- Lindsey, Hal -- Locusts -- Lord of the Rings, The -- Malachy, Saint (O'More) -- Maranatha -- Mark of the beast -- Messiah/Messianic prophecy -- Meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites -- Methuselah -- Millennialism -- Millerites -- Moses and Elijah -- Movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God. |
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New age views of the end -- New heaven, new earth, and the new Jerusalem -- Nicene Creed -- Nordic mythology of the endtimes -- Nostradamus -- Nuclear proliferation -- Numerology -- Olivet Discourse -- Oppenheimer, J. Robert -- Parables of the Kingdom -- Paul, Apostle -- Peak oil -- Petra -- Pit -- Plagues -- Polar shift -- Population clock -- Pre- and postmillennialism -- Pre-, post-, and midtribulationalism -- Preterist theology -- Quantum theory -- Quetzalcoatl -- Rapture -- Rapture index -- Reagan, Ronald -- Red shift -- Reformation, Protestant -- Resurrection, The -- Revelation -- Revival -- Roman Catholic view of history -- Rosh -- Ryrie, Charles C. -- Sagan, Carl -- Scientific "God" language -- Scientific views of the end -- Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson -- Second Adam -- Second Coming -- Second death -- Seekers, The -- Seventh-day Adventists -- Seventy Sevens -- 666 -- Sun, Death of -- Supernova threat -- Tecumseh -- Temple at Jerusalem -- Theonomic postmillennialism -- Theories of the end -- Thousand-year Reich -- Togarmah -- Toynbee, Arnold -- Trilateral Commission -- Unidentified flying objects -- Visions and dreams -- Water -- Whore of Babylon -- Y2K -- Zion and Zionism -- Zoroastrianism. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
End of the world.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Eschatology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Prophecy.
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End of the world. (OCoLC)fst00909634
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| Added Author |
Willis, Barbara.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Willis, Jim, 1946- Armageddon now. Detroit : Visible Ink Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006277056 |
| ISBN |
9781578592449 (electronic bk.) |
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1578592445 (electronic bk.) |
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9781578592913 (electronic bk.) |
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1578592917 (electronic bk.) |
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9781578593002 (electronic bk.) |
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157859300X (electronic bk.) |
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